A recent story in the New York Times (No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’) described a new energy efficiency standard for homes called “passive houses.”
The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside Frankfurt, approaches the challenge from a different angle. Using ultrathick insulation and complex doors and windows, the [...]
The latest edition of the York Weekly has two stories with news about the York Energy Efficiency Committee. The article “York will soon begin carbon inventory of municipal buildings” covers the presentation by Eric Hopkins and Hanna Mitchell to the Board of Selectmen at their Dec. 8 meeting where the selectmen voted unanimously to join the [...]
Lots of things happening on Energy related stuff in York these days.
One of the issues we are very much interested in supporting is a proposed wind ordinance for York. Town Planner, Christine Grimando has been researching other towns in Maine who have already adopted wind ordinances, and has begun to assemble a draft ordinance to [...]
At Monday’s Selectmen meeting, the board voted unanimously to spend $600 to join the ICLEI association and begin the work of measuring the town’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis.
Hanna Mitchell – who will be in York until February – has agreed to begin the hard work of compiling billing records [...]
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